In recent years, New York has undergone important changes, the most dramatic of which was the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. This newly updated edition takes a look at the city "then and now" and highlights the development of the New York's... [More...]

Never before has information about African American fraternities and sororities been published for the general public, until now...
America's black fraternities and sororities are a unique and vital part of 20th century African American history, providing... [More...]

Newly updated, this timely history of the struggle to discover and control water in the American West is a tale of rivers diverted and damned, political corruption and intrigue, billion-dollar battles over water rights, and economic and ecological disaster.... [More...]

In the late 1960s, Eliot Wigginton and his students created the magazine "Foxfire in an effort to record and preserve the traditional folk culture of the Southern Appalachians. This is the original book compilation of Foxfire material which introduces Aunt... [More...]

Combining rich historical detail and a harrowing, pulse-pounding narrative, "Close to Shore brilliantly re-creates the summer of 1916, when a rogue Great White shark attacked swimmers along the New Jersey shore, triggering mass hysteria and launching the... [More...]

From origin stories to contemporary struggles over treaty rights and sovereignty issues, "Indian Nations of Wisconsin: Histories of Endurance and Renewal" explores Wisconsin's rich Native tradition. Each chapter is a compact tribal history of one of the... [More...]

HARK THE SOUND OF TAR HEEL VOICES provides nearly 220 years' worth of words from the men and women who created and nurtured UNC-Chapel Hill.

One of "our most insightful social observers" ("Los Angeles Times") cracks the great political mystery of our time: how conservatism, once a marker of class privilege, became the creed of millions of ordinary Americans.

Despite the devastation of 1906, historic buildings and artifacts survive from every period of San Francisco's history. This lively narrative of The City from its very beginnings all the way through the earthquake of 1989 tells where to find the historic... [More...]